Len Conrad wrote: >maybe somebody has the redirection handy. > >
/path/to/command >/dev/null 2>&1 The '2>&1' part causes STDERR to be redirected to STDOUT (every process normally has two output channels which may or may not go to the same place). The '/dev/null' part makes it go away. At least, the above works on OpenBSD. YMMV. I have noticed that I can't use that syntax directly on the command line (I think the '&' gets interpreted as a request to background the job), but in crontab does the trick.
